Q 01/05

Doctor Who's first episode aired in 1963, the day after which news event?

A) The Great Train Robbery

B) The March on Washington

C) John F. Kennedy's assassination

D) John Profumo's resignation

Answer · why

C) John F. Kennedy's assassination

John F. Kennedy's assassination on 22 November 1963 so overshadowed the launch that the BBC repeated the first episode a week later, just before episo...

Q 02/05

Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman, went on to lead which spin-off series?

A) Class

B) The Sarah Jane Adventures

C) Torchwood

D) K-9 and Company

Answer · why

C) Torchwood

Torchwood is an anagram of 'Doctor Who': the word was first written on tapes of the 2005 series to hide them from pirates, then reused as the spin-off...

Q 03/05

Which of these companions was, like the Doctor, a Time Lady able to regenerate?

A) Romana

B) Leela

C) Sarah Jane Smith

D) Jo Grant

Answer · why

A) Romana

Romana (Romanadvoratrelundar) was sent by the White Guardian to help the Doctor find the Key to Time, and had two on-screen incarnations played by Mar...

Q 04/05

Which First Doctor companion, a space pilot from Earth's future, initially stowed away on the TARDIS?

A) Steven Taylor

B) Ian Chesterton

C) Ben Jackson

D) Harry Sullivan

Answer · why

A) Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor had crash-landed on Mechanus two years earlier; fleeing the burning Mechonoid city, he staggered into the TARDIS unseen and was only dis...

Q 05/05

Which Doctor Who companion died trying to stop a Cyberman-controlled freighter hitting prehistoric Earth?

A) Nyssa

B) Tegan

C) Adric

D) Turlough

Answer · why

C) Adric

Adric died when the freighter struck Earth, the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs; the episode ended with uniquely silent credits in his memory.